21.09.2025 13:32
The Tax Audit Board has achieved a tax base difference of 15 billion lira through a monitoring program targeting 10,000 taxpayers who are partners in large-scale companies and have not submitted income tax returns. Announcing the development, Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek stated, "We have focused our tax audits on high-income groups operating in the informal economy. Our efforts to increase fairness in taxation will continue without interruption."
The Tax Audit Board has started implementing the High Income Groups Monitoring and Compliance Program in May as a result of risk analysis studies. Within the scope of the program, 10,000 taxpayers who are partners in large-scale companies and have not submitted income tax returns for the 2023-2024 period, with potential income and expenditure levels inconsistent with tax declarations, have been placed under observation.
1000 TAXPAYERS FILED INCOME TAX RETURNS FOR THE FIRST TIME
With this study, approximately 1000 taxpayers, who have disproportionate expenses relative to their income despite being partners in large-scale companies, filed income tax returns for the first time in their lives. The declared tax base in this context exceeded 1.2 billion lira. VDK inspectors emphasized the importance of profit distribution in the companies they are partners in during their meetings with these individuals. It was pointed out in these meetings that the company and the partner are legally separate entities, and that the flow from the company to the partner can be achieved through profit distribution.
5.9 BILLION LIRA IN TAX BASE DIFFERENCE REACHED
It was also indicated that the decisions on profit distribution could significantly reduce the audit risk due to providing a financially healthy identity to the company. Following this discussion process, approximately 1000 taxpayers, who had no profit distribution decisions or had made a limited number of such transactions, decided to distribute profits in the company they are partners in. Thus, a tax base difference of approximately 5.9 billion lira was reached with the declared taxes.
Some taxpayers included in the program not only submitted their tax returns but also increased the corporate tax base of approximately 1200 large-scale companies they are partners in by about 7.7 billion lira, and paid this tax as well. Thus, a tax base difference of approximately 15 billion lira was reached within the scope of the monitoring study. While a significant portion of the taxpayers included in the program complied, tax audit processes will be initiated for those who did not comply.
MINISTER ŞİMŞEK: WE WILL INCREASE TAX JUSTICE
In a statement regarding this development from account X, Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek said, "We have focused our tax audits on unregistered high-income groups. We are investigating large-scale company partners who have not submitted income tax returns and whose income and expenditures are inconsistent with their tax declarations within the scope of the High Income Groups Monitoring and Compliance Program. Our efforts to increase tax justice will continue uninterrupted."